By Request. Source: 1881 Grundy County, Missouri History Jesse Bain , p. 613-14 JESSE BAIN The subject of this sketch is entitled to the honor of being the first white settler that had a family and located in Lincoln township, Grundy County, Missouri, and now, in 1881, is still living. His birthplace was in Muskingum County, Ohio, and the date June 21, 1812. He was the eldest son of Riason and Ellender Bain. His father was born upon the present site of Wheeling, West Virginia, April 19, 1791. His mother was also a native of Virginia, born in 1797. Our subject lived in Muskingnm County till about twenty-two years of age, and then moved to Rush County, Indiana, and remained there till the spring of 1837, then in company with his father and his only full brother, Jacob, started to find a home in the then far West. They crossed the Mississippi River at St. Louis on April 9, 1837, and traveled one hundred and fifty miles in a southwest course to Pulaski County, Missouri, and there the families remained and raised one crop, but in the; meantime the father and Jesse Bain were continually prospecting. Accidently falling in with Lisbon Applegate. United States surveyor, who had lust returned from surveying the Grand River country, he told them that the only way he could make his report as to that country was "better than first rate." They therefore explored the county and being perfectly satisfied returned to Pulaski County and gathering up their families and personal effects started, September 10,1837, for the Grand River country, and on the 12th day of November, 1837, located in what is now the township of Lincoln, Grundy County. While in Pulaski County, Mr. Jesse Bain was married, on the 10th of August, 1837, to Miss Catharine Ogletree, who was a native of Overton County, Tennessee, and born November 1, 1818. Four children were the fruits of this marriage, two of whom are still living; viz. P. W. Bain and O. G. Bain. Mrs. Bain died in the fall of 1857, and he was again united in marriage, on November 10, 1858, to Miss Mary Rock, a native of Barren County, Kentucky, and born January 12, 1834. By this marriage there are four children; viz. Walter G., Anna, Jesse D. and Hallie May. Mr. Bain started in this township a poor boy not worth $20, but now, by industry and good management has accumulated a nice property, owning three hundred and twenty acres of the choicest land in Lincoln township, all improved and stocked, and two very fine orchards. During the civil war he was a member of company E, Seventh Missouri State militia. In 1849 he crossed the plains to California, where he remained for some time, and then returned by water, and during the voyage home was shipwrecked but managed to escape.